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Naming convention for different type of triangulations

When studying random geometries and related mathematical/physical stuff conflicting naming convention pops up regarding the naming of the different ensemble types of triangulations (in general ...
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Number of polyhedral covers of a triangulation of $S^2$

For a given triangulation (combinatorial Type I. or Type II.) of a $2$-sphere, what is the number of unique polygonal covers with $n$ polygons where ($n$ goes from $2$ to $N$)? Under polygonal cover, ...
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High-Dimensional Analogs of Polygon Spaces

[Edit: I had a mistake in the numerology (took d=6,5 instead of d=5,4). Edit: I mistakenly identified my mistake, it is 6,5 but I got the indices shifted by one.] Background: Polygon spaces Given a ...
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dissections and vertices of non-convex polytopes

Let us call a finite union $P$ of $n$-dimensional compact convex polytopes in $\mathbb{R}^n$ a non-convex polytope. Recall that a dissection of $P$ is a finite collection $T$ of $n$-dimensional ...